Trash vs Recycle - What's the difference?
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(chiefly, US) Useless things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.
* Landor
A container into which things are discarded.
Something worthless or of poor quality.
(slang, derogatory) People of low social status or class.
(computing) Temporary storage on disk for files that the user has deleted, allowing them to be recovered if necessary.
A collar, leash, or halter used to restrain a dog in pursuing game.
(US) To discard.
* 1989 , InfoWorld (18 December 1989, page 66)
(US) To make into a mess.
(US) To beat soundly in a game.
(US) To disrespect someone or something
To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop.
To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or crush.
To hold back by a trash or leash, as a dog in pursuing game; hence, to retard, encumber, or restrain; to clog; to hinder vexatiously.
To break down and reuse component materials.
To reuse as a whole.
* 12 July 2012 , Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
To collect or place in a bin for recycling.
(ergative) To be recycled.
As verbs the difference between trash and recycle
is that trash is to discard while recycle is to break down and reuse component materials.As a noun trash
is useless things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.trash
English
Noun
(-)- A haunch of venison would be trash to a Brahmin.
- (Markham)
Synonyms
* garbage (1-3), junk (1,3), refuse (1), rubbish, waste * (container) trash can * See alsoDerived terms
* trailer trash * trash bag * trash can * trashed * trashery * trash fish * trashman * trashmover * trashy * white trashVerb
(es)- Fatcat also fails to warn you that unformatting will trash any files copied to the unintentionally formatted disk.
- The burglars trashed the house.
- to trash the rattoons of sugar cane
- (Beaumont and Fletcher)
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* trash outSee also
recycle binAnagrams
* *recycle
English
Verb
(Recycling) (recycl)- Recycled paper.
- Recycled plastic.
- Jokes are recycled so frequently, it’s as if comedy writing was eating a hole in the ozone layer: If the audience had a nickel for every time a character on one side of the frame says something could never happen as it simultaneously happens on the other side of the frame, they’d have enough to pay the surcharge for the movie’s badly implemented 3-D.
- Sulfur recycles in the sulfur cycle.